Franklin County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

95,036	128,878	4,270	146,767	27,174	666,853
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	52	146,767	137.3
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	36	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	37	0.0
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	16	3,054	2.9
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	136	0.1
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	197	0.2
Calvary Chapel Fellowship Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	883	0.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	25	11,813	11.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	131	0.1
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	1	62	0.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,911	2.7
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	11	3,714	3.5
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	4	160	0.2
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	26	7,446	7.0
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	25	3,619	3.4
Community of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	6	526	0.5
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	87	0.1
Conservative Mennonite Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	119	0.1
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	4	371	0.4
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	161	0.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	98	0.1
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	213	0.2
General Association of Regular Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	10	2,747	2.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	2,700	2.5
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	5	4,280	4.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	2	69	0.1
International Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	181	0.2
International Pentecostal Church of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	180	0.2
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	8	3,189	3.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	195	0.2
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,300	1.2
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	246	0.2
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	3	493	0.5
Primitive Baptist Churches--Old Line	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Reformed Baptist Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	5	957	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	8	2,859	2.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	36	22,375	20.9
Southwide Baptist Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Vineyard USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	11,968	11.2
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	4,458	4.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	1,038	1.0
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	30	12,747	11.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	12	7,969	7.5
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	14	6,298	5.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	46	30,320	28.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	3	281	0.3
International Council of Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	2	388	0.4
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	1	202	0.2
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	187	0.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	35	16,113	15.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	268	0.3
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	11	9,749	9.1
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	83	44,285	41.4
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	71	0.1
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Etchmiadzin	Orthodox	1	245	0.2
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	2,400	2.3
Macedonian Orthodox Church: American Diocese	Orthodox	1	1,000	0.9
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	1	455	0.4
Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA	Orthodox	1	170	0.2
Bahá'í	Other Theology	4	355	0.3
Buddhism	Other Theology	10	n.a.	n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	11	4,349	4.1
Hindu	Other Theology	4	n.a.	n.a.
Jain	Other Theology	2	n.a.	n.a.
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	11	15,600	14.6
Muslim Estimate	Other Theology	3	6,150	5.8
Sikh	Other Theology	3	n.a.	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	2	720	0.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	623	402,125
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		509,848

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 961,437; in 2000 it was 1,068,978. The total population changed 11.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (402,125) include 37.6% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (509,848) include 47.7% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.

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